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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

Press conference with Minister of Interior Wolfgang Sobotka, KSÖ and SBA: Security Rockstars

Er hoffe auf “frische und unkonventionelle Herangehensweisen an Cybersicherheitsthemen, sagte Innenminister Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) am Mittwoch bei einem Pressegespräch in Wien zu dem vom Innenministerium gemeinsam mit dem  Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich (KSÖ) und SBA Research veranstalteten Start-up-Wettbewerb Security Rockstars: “Start-ups stellen andere Überlegungen an, als etablierte Betriebe.” Noch rund zwei… Read More

How Bitcoin-users tick

Edgar Weippl and Aljosha Judmayr are talking about our study “The Other Side of the Coin: User Experiences with Bitcoin Security and Privacy”, which was published at Financial Crypto 2016. Read several articles about the topic here: futurezone.at, DerStandard.at, Wirtschaftsblatt, Krone.at, Wiener Zeitung,… Read More

Markus Klemen moderates the first LSZ Cyber Crime Forum

The first LSZ Cyber Crime Forum will take place on June 14, 2016 at Novomatic Forum, Vienna and deals with the question: “Cyber Crime – a CEO-topic!?!” Markus Klemen leads through the event. More details and the agenda can be found here.

Cyber Security Lecture given by Prof. Amir Herzberg

Automation Systems Group, SBA Research, and AIT Safety and Security Department are happy to present the “Cyber Security Lecture Series” organizing leading edge talks by international ICT security experts in Austria. The lecture today is given by Prof. Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel about “CDN-on-Demand: An Affordable DDoS Defense via Untrusted Clouds”. Abstract… Read More

(ISC)2 SecureConference for the first time in Austria

SBA Research, T-Systems and the (ISC)2 Chapter Austria are organizing together the first (ISC)2 SecureAustria, which will take place on June 30, 2016. The conference explores the impact of the rise of the virtual organization on security practice; the solutions that are emerging to tackle this environment; and the lessons… Read More

Dimitris Simos joins the NIST CMVP Programme

Dimitris Simos joined the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Programme and will contribute to the software module testing group. The main goals of the programme are to research and identify best practices for crypto module testing as well as write specifications for automated testing.

Nimbusec in futurezone.at

Alexander Mitter, nimbusec, and Andreas Tomek, SBA Research, are talking in futurezone.at about the rising number of attacks on company websites, the ideal conditions for current start-ups, and the lacking readiness to assume risks. Nimbusec is last year’s winner of the start-up competition Start Secure which will be held this year under the… Read More

SBA Research @ Imagine16

Today Peter Kieseberg from SBA Research gives the keynote at the Digital Networked Data Workshop “Big-Data und Security” at the Imagine16. Furthermore, he will present current research results on data leak protection.